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The US one has the movie in both 1.37:1 and 1.85:1 aspects. The Australian version has only the latter. But it does have a BonusView PIP special extra, plus a 53 minute doco, plus a 59 minute set of unedited footage not used, plus a couple of featurettes. It also has two featurettes on the disc which aren't linked through the menu system as far as I can work out. If they turn out to be easter eggs, I'll come back to report this.

Back to the movie. The encode seems to be very similar to the US 1.85:1 version. Exactly the same number of frames in both versions, and the one second bitrate graphs are very similar for the most part, although with some differences (the US version drops lower in the credits). Australian version uses DTS-HD MA rather than Dolby TrueHD.

Quite similar to US version (identical video by the look of it), but without a proper disc label, and with a different language package. Also, no special extras whatsover, except for bookmarks and generic Sony BD-Live.

This is Mel Gibson's first starring role, and was the first of the Mad Max series.

The second audio track is alleged to be the US mono dub from the original theatrical release there (dubbed into US accents), but from my sampling is actually an Australian-voiced mono dub. The third track is English Audio Descriptive.

The main feature contains the original English audio and a French (Parisian) DUB, both in DTS-HD MA, along with optional, white-font subtitles in English, English SDH, French, and Spanish.

There are three supplements on this disc, all in in 480i29.970 (NTSC) resolution. A rough cut (see below), with optional audio commentary by Carl Macek, deleted scenes with optional audio commentary by Carl Macek, and the documentary "Imagining Heavy Metal". The rough cut and deleted scenes are in 4:3, and the documentary is in 4:3 and also letterboxed 4:3 (film clips). The disc is also BD-Live enabled.

All of the supplements and commentaries are optionally subtitled in Spanish only.

Here's a new one. The opening menu asks if you want to play in 3D or "the best 2D viewing experience with color and picture as intended by the filmmakers." The latter is provided by a separate AVC M2TS, with a lower bitrate than the 22.46Mbps that cinemasquid.com states for the standalone 2D disc (and the 2D disc is also included in the 4-disc package containing this BD3D). Naturally, each of the audio tracks was duplicated for this M2TS as well: 4GB worth.

Stereo track is commentary. No other extras on this 3D disc except BD-Live and instruction videos. English subs are SDH.